Soft Cell: Cruelty Without Beauty (Cooking Vinyl)

THE GOD-UNCLES of electroclash make a long-overdue comeback with a fascinatingly reflective album – "We've gotta keep dancing through the years/We've gotta keep smiling through our tears," Marc Almond sings on the opening 'Darker Times' before taking a curmudgeonly swipe at the early 21st century on 'Monoculture'.